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Well I think people wäre Mode conscious about Thema price Sticker andere so a raise can be hidden bye making Thema serving smaller. They have To cope with Inflation like everybody else. But often that wanders into fraud offen.course.

 

And amrketing is all the time messing around with sizes. Like what I recognized recently, that the shampoo came in the same size bottle that I have standing in the shower, but with a sticker 20% more. In the mean time they had reduced the size and for christmas went back to the former size. Dunno if they raised price as well. Or the Corn Flakes boxes full of air. Pralinee are the worst. Lots of air and plastic inlay for lotsa dinero.

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Well I think people wäre Mode conscious about Thema price Sticker andere so a raise can be hidden bye making Thema serving smaller. They have To cope with Inflation like everybody else. But often that wanders into fraud offen.course.

 

Yeah, I hate that spellchecker on my smartphone, too.

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Well I think people wäre Mode conscious about Thema price Sticker andere so a raise can be hidden bye making Thema serving smaller. They have To cope with Inflation like everybody else. But often that wanders into fraud offen.course.

Yeah, I hate that spellchecker on my smartphone, too.

:lol:

 

Yes, especially when it jumps back to german on its own sometimes. <_<

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Well I think people wäre Mode conscious about Thema price Sticker andere so a raise can be hidden bye making Thema serving smaller. They have To cope with Inflation like everybody else. But often that wanders into fraud offen.course.

 

That was... beautiful. Is like a "Man in the High Castle" universe new-speak.

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Well I think people wäre Mode conscious about Thema price Sticker andere so a raise can be hidden bye making Thema serving smaller. They have To cope with Inflation like everybody else. But often that wanders into fraud offen.course.

 

That was... beautiful. Is like a "Man in the High Castle" universe new-speak.

:lol:

 

As BansheeOne pointed out, the automatic spell checker of my wayward smart phone mixed that up.

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Very vaguely. Though im of the same opinion as my father, the best thing Fosters could do would be to move into making Battery Acid. :)

Yes mate, Watney's Party 7, pic at this linkie, compare with the normal cans atop the cabinet for scale. :-))

 

 

 

 

You never got to taste the Pisswater that was US mass produced beer, even here in Canada our mass produced stuff was twice as good and still crap. thank god for cottage breweries and Guinness

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Everyone who was in Ireland seems to claim that export guiness is piss compared to one served in Ireland :)

The guinees stout sold abroad is often from licensed breweries. They use the same recipe, but a differing array of equipment makes it taste differently. Also bottled or canned makes a difference to beer on tap. Although the guinness cans with the nitrogen cartridge come surprisingly close to freshly tapped. And the irish hospitality is missing of course. ;)

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The beer from Budvar, the original Budweiser is entirely unrelated to "Budweiser" except that they stole the name for the US (and, after the fall of the iron curtain, (unsuccessfully) sued the original brewery to stop using their own name). So, Budweiser from Budvar (CZ): Yay! It's good. But doesn't come from the US.

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Budvar/Budweiser's legal battles are somewhat complex, but mean that there are a few places in the world where the American stuff (which includes rice in the recipe <spit>) is the only stuff allowed to use the Budweiser trademark, others where the Czech version is the only one allowed to use that name and some (like the UK) where it seems we're not confused by two products that have the same name being sold in the same aisles. It's simple. The nasty stuff is in the pale cans and the good stuff is in the tall bottles.

 

Of course, if people have been drinking "guiness" (sic) then I expect it's a poor Chinese copy. It's "Guinness". Guinness is also, in my opinion, a beer that is extremely sensitive to how well it is kept. Although the whole pouring ritual is a bit over-done, care and attention by the cellarman (person!) and the bartender can make a huge difference.

 

Ice-cold Guinness is an abomination - served so cold that it attracts the trendy lager drinkers because they can't taste it.

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An ale or a stout should be drunken warmer than a lager or some such. Not room temperature warm, but not ice cold either. If too cold all the flavour is lost.

 

 

A beer I recently found is Grimbergen from Belgium. A very dark beer with a rich malty and caramel flavour. I think they use several different malts to brew it. And it is nearly as thick as Guinness (I hope I got it right this time. Sorry DB).

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Is it snobbery if we can get good beer of the types named anywhere?

 

Sam Adams has a good reputation amongst "beer snobs", but I've not had the opportunity to drink it. I have managed to drink many of the beers already mentioned that aren't American. Mostly I've enjoyed them all. (But for lager type beers I avoid all but European stuff, and even the (continental) Europeans are responsible for Carlsberg, Heineken and Stella Artois. (blech, especially the last one)

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Guinees. OK, got it.

 

Hay their, sport! Stay off them cornre drugs!

 

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What I currently have in the fridge;

 

 

what I wish I could find in my AO, for less than $11 a sixer;

 

 

 

Very unfortunately, I now live in the land of pseudo-German Americanized brews (i.e. fermented leftover cattle feed). The "good" section in the beer aisle is mostly weizens and IPAs, and sadly in the Contiguous 48, IPA really means "extra hoppy and over-carbonated lager labeled as ale."

 

Americans can make excellent beer, but for reasons unknown, they cannot distribute or retail it.

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Well I think people wäre Mode conscious about Thema price Sticker andere so a raise can be hidden bye making Thema serving smaller. They have To cope with Inflation like everybody else. But often that wanders into fraud offen.course.

That was... beautiful. Is like a "Man in the High Castle" universe new-speak.

:lol:

 

As BansheeOne pointed out, the automatic spell checker of my wayward smart phone mixed that up.

 

 

Seems kind of silly to try to use a smartphone as a communication device.

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Guinees. OK, got it.

 

Hay their, sport! Stay off them cornre drugs!

 

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What I currently have in the fridge;

 

 

what I wish I could find in my AO, for less than $11 a sixer;

 

 

 

Very unfortunately, I now live in the land of pseudo-German Americanized brews (i.e. fermented leftover cattle feed). The "good" section in the beer aisle is mostly weizens and IPAs, and sadly in the Contiguous 48, IPA really means "extra hoppy and over-carbonated lager labeled as ale."

 

Americans can make excellent beer, but for reasons unknown, they cannot distribute or retail it.

 

Well I'm sure the EUropeeeeeeeeen will correct you....

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They were brewing all the time, just not for them imperialists. Actually Bud Light was a Commie plot to subvert the USA by making the Yankees drink piss, unfortunately they seemed to like it :P

In the late eighties we could buy Czech made Budweiser at the liquor store on post. It was a little pricey compared to German beer though. I liked it enough that the standard price for me to pull a motor-pool guard or CQ shift was a case of it. As I recall, the agreement at the time was that US Budweiser was sold under that name in the North and South America plus the UK while the Czechs had Europe. Czech Budweiser is sold in the US as Czechvar, I don't think it's as good as what I drank in Europe but it could just be that my tastes have changed over the years.

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Scotch is probably moved at cask strength and diluted on site. Water tastes "funny" everywhere other than where you're used to, so it shouldn't then be a surprise if the result tastes different. I doubt they use distilled water.

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Scotch is probably moved at cask strength and diluted on site. Water tastes "funny" everywhere other than where you're used to, so it shouldn't then be a surprise if the result tastes different. I doubt they use distilled water.

For the true enthusiast some distilleries sell their own water along with the scotch.

 

For industrial purposes (like mixing lemonade) demineralized water is used for consistency. It is always the same, whereas natural mineral water is not consistent. So I can see it used for bottling. And it would change the taste compared to the original water at the distillery.

 

 

 

With beers it seems that sometimes they are licensed out. Over the years I noticed that Foster's came from french, german or belgian breweries according to the printed on info on the label. Guinness I found that it sometimes comes from the Netherlands. And it did not taste as good as genuine Made in Eire.

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